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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: re: CONAN THE DESTROYER
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Date: Thu, 12-Jul-84 07:31:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 12 07:31:15 1984
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I'm afraid I have to disagree with you about CONAN THE DESTROYER, Jeff. In my
opinion, CTD sucked dead and diseased rodents. First of all, Roy Thomas and
Gerry Conway's story was like a bad issue of the comic book. I don't understand
why they have to trivialize all the great Howard villains. The first Conan film
made mincemeat out of Thulsa Doom, and the second does an even worse hatchet job
on Thoth-Amon.
	Secondly, the acting, with three exceptions, was awful. I liked Mako
(he'd make a great Chiun in a [Remo the] Destroyer movie, even if he isn't Kor-
ean). And Sarah Douglas was as beautiful and nasty as she was in SUPERMAN II.
How you can utter Wilt Chamberlain in the same breath as those two is beyond me;
as an actor, he makes a great basketball player. The third goody was Grace Jones
--- a truly endearingly demented performance.
	Thirdly, the sfx were ghastly! The Thoth-Amon man-ape had the hokiest-
looking make-up I've seen this side of ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE. And as for
the Lovecraftian monster at the end, I find it hard to believe that Carlo Ram-
baldi was willing to take the blame for that.
	And lastly, the PG rating didn't help matters any. Going to a Conan
movie, I expect to see hacking-and-slashing, blood-and-guts, and naked women.
Not that I have a predisposition for such things, but they are part and parcel
of the Conan ambience. The first film had it just right; the second was too
wimpy. Oh, sure, there was some swordplay and a touch of blood, but nothing like
the first movie. I want and expect Conan the Eviscerator, not Conan the Somewhat
Nice Guy.
	I liked the first Conan film quite a bit. not that it was earth-shaking,
but it had a lot to recommend it. CONAN THE DESTROYER, though? Naahhhhh.

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)

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